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Show THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 Ht44- f WHO WAS WHO? By Louise n 1 1 1 111 II - U. Comstock 1 1 1 1 lillll-H-- ft STALKY Scenes and Persons in the Current News ii ' t CO. n MASTER GIGADIRS, the Beetle ot "Stalky A Co seems dlscouragtngly clever and unreasonably lucky In getting out ot scrapes to modern little boys reading this children's classic, they have only to realise that the Beetle grew up to be none other than Rudyard Kipling to understand why. HU two classmates In No. 5 Study, however, CL Beresford, the McTurk of the story, and MaJ. Gen. Lionel CL Stalky himself, both have testified that Kipling's picture of his school days Is a bit overdrawn. Born In India, Klplfog was sent well-know- IF d e, to be educated In the United Services college at Westward Hoi In Here at tbe ' age of England. twelve the future author of "The Light That Failed" and the "Barrack Room Ballads" showed little of the talent In concocting real-boescapades with which he later credits himselL instead, he spent much of hU time reading at a prodigious rate; Though the King of "8talky 1 Women campers In Zosemlte National park snowbound by the heaviest snowfall ever recorded In A Co," a Mr. Crofts In real Ufe, predicted for this queer little boy that region. 2 William A. Irvin, who has been made president of the United Statea Steel corporation to an Ignominious death "In an attic, succeed James A. Farrell 8 Remarkable action photograph of Japanese soldiers pursuing Chinese near a scurrilous pamphleteer," others the Klangwan racetrack outside ot Shanghai recognized his genius. Among these were the head master and the padre who gave him the run of their liIce-Bou- nd come per capita was under $143 a braries, a very special privilege; McTurk, who describes him as a year." "Epidemics of typhoid fever, diphfizzling literary Impulse with theria and smallpox occurred fre- a small boy tacked on behind ; and quently,1 kllss Winslow continues. Stalky, who finds promise In the "Owing to their Ignorance of any youthful Kipling's contributions to form of sanitation, the people were the College Chronicle; of which he riddled with hookworm. was also editor. After Mrs. Breckenrldge had visited the region she decided, writes V V V Miss Winslow, "that the health of mothers and children was the most PET MARJORIE urgent problem and that the situation called for trained Sir Walter who might combine a pro(pETScottMARJORIE," called her, little Mac gram of public health and bedside Jorie Fleming who lived near him In nursing with midwifery. The Frontier Nursing service Edinburgh, whose whimsical persongrew out of this belief It consists ality and astonishing literary career at present of 28 nurses on duty at begun when she was six and ended nine nursing centers. The service by her death Juat before she was d maintains an hospital, built nine; won her unusual friends In her day and a peculiar sort of fame three years aga ever since; A statue of Pet Mar Scattered through neighboring counties are a few doctors who can Jorie was set up Just last year In An aerial view of the steamer Fellow-CraLake Erie, off Pelee Island. The trapped In the be called upon whenever necessary, her birthplace; Klrcaldy, Scotland, 21 members of the crew are shown waving cheerfully to the plane after 1,000 pounda of food had been dropped and there Is a surgeon In the near- and she Is mentioned In the Diction- to them. The men, having received the food, were not In distress but could not be reached by vessels. est town, 23 miles from the hos- ary of National Biography as one whose "Ufe Is probably tbe shortest pital. FARM LOAN DIRECTOR In their last fiscal year the nurses to be recorded In these volumes, yet Ri-- Ri of the frontier service attended one of the most charming characters." 9,788 people In 1,851 families, makMarjorie Fleming was born In ing 47,827 visits altogether. The total cost of the service was 1898; When she waa Just turning $100,406.49 for the year, averaging six the family moved to Edinburgh and Marjorie took up writing and' $10.02 a patient, but the 9,786 pacommenced her famous friendship tients served were able to pay with Scott. Part of the Waveriy of the total novels were written with Pet Marjorie on the authors knee; Sometimes she would amuse him by reciting long passages from Shakespeare ; at others they would tramp together across the fields while Scotts dog Malda scampered Joyously about y BRING MEDICAL AID TO ISOLATED AREA Women Nunes Do Fine Work in Hill Country. Washington. The novel method by which a email group of women nnrsea have In six yeara brought medical care to a remote rural area, typical of many In the United Statea, where no doctor could make a living and the people were too Ignorant and poor to care for themselves, are deeecrlbed In a study Just published by the committee on the cost of medical care. The report gives a glimpse of one of America's still existing frontier regions In the back country of Kentucky, where social and health condition! were all but medieval, and where It coats a dollar a mile to bring a doctor Into the wilderness on a visit In a part of this district the frontier Nursing service maintains s Its health outposts, whence ride out on horseback to combat squalor, Ignorance and Useasa. The study, by Anne Winslow, executive secretary of the lervlce, tells how these women have nurse-nldwlve- Lights of NEW YORK WALTER TRUMBULL me this story. He said It was true and that he had written It about ten years ago, but that I might tell It again. Perhaps you never read It or heard It I never lud. Mr. Poole said It was told to him by Mrs. Hoover, either during or just after the war. At any rate, there was a young fellow from Texas whose father had known Buffalo Bill From hearing of the latters tours and exploits; the young fellow got an Idea that Europe might still be fertile ground for some sort of wild west show. He had made a bit of money In the cattle country, probably $2,900 or so, and decided that was sufficient capital, If things were managed right Uls first move was to round up some Indians; He picked Carlisle graduates; educated Indians who knew their way about and would understand the scheme and go Into It on a percentage basis. Ip conjunction with the state board of health of Kentucky, to check up on unreported births and deaths Mias Winslow writes : "There was no physician In Leslie county, and In one contiguous area of three counties surveyed there were 19,000 people without one registered physician. In this area It took the nearest doctor six to twenty hours on horseback to reach a patient. Necessarily, the average fee of $1 a mile was prohibitive for all but a few families; the average total In the soo declined. Finally they fed the ponies to the lions and lived off the tents translated Into food. The time came when they had nothing left except their costumes With these and the help of a friendly consul they mnde their way toward a port, which was the first step In the direction of boms them-selve- It was at the Coffee House club that Ernest Poole, the novelist, told ' succeeded at moderate cost In providing midwifery, nursing, surgical, medical, dental, hospital and social service for the region. The portion of the frontier on which the service operates lies In Leslie, Perry, Clay and Bell counties. The organisation was established through the work of link llary Breckenrldge, a graduate nurse who made the first survey In 1914, with a view of determining the health needs of the region and devising a way to meet them. Her visit was followed In 192S by a survey In Leslie county by Mias Bertram Ireland, who worked In When they got to Europe there was enough money to feed them and buy a few ponies They gave shows and began to do pretty welL As fast as they accumulated any surplus they put It Into more ponies, and began to collect other animals Finally they secured a couple of gentle old lions Customers over there didn't appear to know that African lions do not roam the American Indian country. The show was becoming quite an enterprise. By the time they reached Vienna they had a big tent and small tents and all sorts of things It looked as If they were going to clean up. But It happened to be late In July, 1914. No sooner had they pitched their tents and made ready for the performance than they thought they heard a great crowd approaching. It looked as If the show was going to sell out, but the approaching throng turned out to be soldiers, marching In military formation, rank on rank. They went by, and for days soldiers kept going by. By this time; the cowboy and Indians had discovered that a war was In progress No-- , body came to the show, but the animals kept on eating. They tried to present the lions to the soo; but Steamer Gets Food From Plane sls-slln- nurse-mid-wive- 18-be- ft Gets 43 them. Marjorie has left us a number of letters recording her childish observations and philosophy, an epic In verse concerning Mary Queen of Scots, whose royalty she upheld even while she condemned her morals, and a Journal written between the ages of six and eight containing more observations on life and a number of poems, all of them recently republished for the modern reader. Iet Marjorie died of measles in 1811. In Hoboken, N. J., there lived a Russian family. The boy of twelve had been born In the United States and In 1914 It was decided It was time he went to see his grandmother In Russls His ticket was purchased and he was shipped over plainly marked for his destination, and with $50, In dollar bills sewn in bis clothes In case of accident Shipped from point to point he came within Bight of Russian territory Just two hours after the border had been dosed. Frightened, be protested In English and the little Russian he had learned from his parents. A kindly old Russian soldier, who was on guard beyond the barricade, told him that things were unsettled In that part of the a Lot of Attention . V V V REBECCA you like your Re- wrote Sir Walter Scott Washington Irving In the letter accompanying his gift of one of the first copies of "Ivanhoe" off the press. "Does the Rebecca I have pictured here compare well with the ((TTOW do beccar tl to coun- be would not be allowed to cross the border; that the best thing he could do was to make bis way to Hamburg and get on a boat try; that for horns He was a smart child and managed to get to Hamburg, but there he was told that the navy had taken over all the ships and none were returning to the United States Then he did not know what to ds He Laces and embroideries worthy ot had to spend his dollar bills one g ancient. Venlcs and the noted for he In but food, the by one, slept centers of France and Irepark. There came a rainy, misty land are being produced right here morning when he woke on his park In the United States Of course bench thoroughly discouraged, loneare much less costly by tlie they ly and hopeless It was pretty tough than la an Inch of antique lacs for a friendless little boy In a for- yard One of the most prominent Amerieign land, with a war going on can has Just Introduced a and every one too occupied to pay wooldesignersdress In which durene crepe any attention to him. Suddenly, embroidered cotton la richly used as out of .the fog across the square, he the entire top of the bodice In yoke saw stalking toward him an Amer- fashion with quarter-lengtsleeves ican cowboy, with a The design Is an Interpretation of hat, followed by ten Indians In war the popular daisy theme done In a bonnets The little boy gave a Joy- handsome antique lace patterning, ne thankful ous cry. had been as the shows The queenpicture taken to circuses and wild west velvet gown Illustrated la enshows and he knew that here were ly hanced by the addition of a beaufriends from horns Uls troubles tiful durene venlse lace bertha a over. were superb reproduction of the ancient (A lilt. Bell sjniaimte.1 WNU Servlc handwork of Venice In American The flair for lace quality cotton. both as trimming and for the gown Nugget of Wisdom Optimism carries a world map In entire la so pronounced, all style Its pocket ve featuring It conspicuously. lace-makin- h d dls-pla- Henry 8. Clarke; Chicago banker, who has been appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde to direct the huge farm loan funds made available by the reconstruction finance corporation. Starting with $50,000,000 the funds may grow to $200,000,000 through sales of debentures of the corporation. About a million farmers are expected to take advantage of the crop loans this year. Here Is lioness; being nursed by one of the pattern given!" nurses at a hospital In Chicago, where she was taken for malnutrition. "The pattern from which Scott care from private CAPT. J. G. SHENNAN This strange patient Is getting fashioned the handsome Jewess who nurses and has a private room. When she recovers she will be returned figures so heroically in the familiar to her birthplace, the private soo of George F. Gets In Holland, Mich. novel was a real woman, Rebecca Grata, whose lovly person and lovelier deeds wet j well known to early Philadelphian' and whose grave may be seen today In the Mikve Israel Hera cemetery on Spruce street. d was a story of love. Born of an aristocratic and Influential Jewish family, well educated, a beauty, she waa the center of one of the most distinguished social groups of the period. When she fell In love with a man of another faitb than her own, she made a costly decision In favor of her familys religion, and devoted her Itfo thereafter to philanthropy and deeds of goodness that doubly endeared her to all who knew her. Thus, It was In the arms of Rebecca Grots that died Matilda Hoffman, beloved of Washington Irving. On a subsequent visit to Scott In England Irving poured out his sorrow to his friend, relating In connection with Matilda'S death the hemic story of Rebecca Grata. All who know and love the Rebecca of "Ivan-hoe- " Another new ocean liner was added to the fleet of the Pacific ocean James G. Shennan, captain of this pay unconscious tribute to this crew at Princeton, when the Santa Rosa was launched at Kearney, N. J. It Is the first of varsity year's heroic glrL taking a workout In the gymnasium four vessels building for the I'annma Mall line of San Francisco, tbe mi, Wasters Nswspsesr (false.) total cost of which will be more than S1S.0IKUXKL at the university. RI-Ri- ," New American Liner for the Pacific star-crosse- It |